page_title: Salt glaze pottery
hierarchical_section_title: Salt glaze pottery
caption_attribution_description: English: Stoneware-botte with the face of a bearded man and coat of arms; Salt glazed with wash and cobalt decoration; c. 1600, from Frechen; Charles W. Nichols Collection, "The Art of German Stoneware" 2012 exhebition.
context_page_description: Salt-glaze or salt glaze pottery is pottery, usually stoneware, with a glaze of glossy, translucent and slightly orange-peel-like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of the firing process. Sodium from the salt reacts with silica in the clay body to form a glassy coating of sodium silicate. The glaze may be colourless or may be coloured various shades of brown, blue, or purple.
context_section_description: Salt-glaze or salt glaze pottery is pottery, usually stoneware, with a glaze of glossy, translucent and slightly orange-peel-like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of the firing process. Sodium from the salt reacts with silica in the clay body to form a glassy coating of sodium silicate. The glaze may be colourless or may be coloured various shades of brown (from iron oxide), blue (from cobalt oxide), or purple (from manganese oxide).
caption: German Bartmann jug, c. 1600
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